Alligator Records ALCD 115
Insert, disc and packaging scans included.
Big Walter Horton and Carey Bell continue the protégé and mentor tradition on "Have Mercy". Blues harp doesn't get any better than that. Under-rated Bell appropriately adorns the disc's cover. With one `whew', you will recognize the brown jug, country blues of Sonny Terry on "Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop". Junior Wells could combine funk, grease and sweat like no other. Experience it on "Broke and Hungry". James Cotton's "Superharp" remains one of the best harp-blowin' tunes ever, while fiery Carey Bell shows why he now reigns as best harpist/vocalist on "Lonesome Stranger".
Do these artists and songs qualify as Crucial Harmonica Blues? You're damn right they do.
-Tim Holek
01. Make My Getaway - Charlie Musselwhite
02. Have Mercy - Big Walter Horton
03. Shake The Boogie - Billy Boy Arnold
04. Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop - Sonny Terry
05. Broke And Hungry - Junior Wells
06. Thank You Baby - Delbert McClinton
07. Burn Your Bridges - Cephas & Wiggins
08. Coastin' Hank - Little Charlie & The Nightcats
09. Superharp - James Cotton
10. Lonesome Stranger - Carey Bell
11. One More Mile To Go - Sugar Blue
12. Blowin' Like Hell - William Clarke